A 2 hour commercial

Rating: 3/10 (3 December 2005)

First off The Island contains LOADS of product placement. Its one of the worst films I've seen in a long time in that sense. Much of it just feels like a really long advert. They are very unsubtle and don't really fit into the film at all - its shameful. Aside from that the story is weak, tired and painfully linear. Having seen Minority Report and I Robot, this film just feels like its repeating the same sort of boring idea - "what if they could do this in the future? Imagine the moral consequences...". The car crashes are reasonably entertaining, but again these just seem pointless and repetitive. All in all it has the feel of a standard Hollywood blockbuster, which it is, with nothing original or exciting.